LETTER: 'Tea party’ manufactured a false rebellion

It is so easy in America to manipulate the gullible and the naive during troubled economic times. Here is how it's manufactured:

First of all, get the backing from the radical conservative minority by way of Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich, who is desperately trying to repair the Republican Party for a run of his own in 2010. Secondly, get the corporate sponsorship and endorsement from the No. 1 mouthpiece of the RNC, Fox News Network. You know, the "fair and balanced" channel.

Sure, hundreds across the nation gathered together for the "tea bag" demonstrations, but what exactly was their protest? High taxes? Where were these "concerned citizens" back in 2004 when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had two trillion-dollar wars in progress (one to hunt for the 9/11 terrorists and the other in Iraq set up for Cheney's Blackwater Halliburton special interests), while in the same breath, George W. Bush was proudly exclaiming that he would not raise taxes? Who did these concerned citizens expect to pay for these wars anyway?

Higher taxes? Sure! But keep in mind in our new dawning in America via the Obama administration, the tax increases are for the upper 1 percent of the wealthiest in this nation. That must explain some of the "suits" that were seen here and there during the April 15 tax protests.

None of the tax codes implemented were done by the Obama administration. All were conceived mid-decade under Bush/Cheney and the Republican-majority Congress. Remember them? You know, Bush's magic and consistently present veto pen and Congress' ever-ready filibustering. I guess that means that the angry tea-baggers are protesting themselves and their own voting record. Fancy that.

And don't get me started on some of the overtly racist signs that were making the rounds during this protest. That would take up an entirely different letter for these pages. Luckily these people don't represent the majority of Americans.

I guess the voices that be at Fox News forgot to tell them that detail.

The entire protest had much more to do with reviving the Republican Party than it did taxes. But then again here's a party where the RNC chairman, Michael Steele, takes his orders from Rush Limbaugh.

Ah, democracy — that's why the majority of America spoke in November 2008 and the Republican extremists are nothing more than a sad reminder of the worst president (at least in my lifetime) of all time, George W. Bush.

I wish them luck with their revisionary rewriting of history. They're going to need it.